2013 Programme
EVENT #14
Chandra Livia Candiani
Apprentices of the moon in the meditation room
Meditation and poetry are “nocturnal ways” – clear-cut and essential although not easily deciphered by reason. They are like moonlight that shines in the dark, that illumines and veils. In the East, the moon represents the mind that reflects, is compassionate, does not separate. The moon teaches the flow and holds the secret of appearances and disappearances. Poetry, too, is reflected light, mysterious gift that disappears in the new paragraph and reappears in the next verse. Meditation is the art of dwelling in everything – even in disappearance, even in nothingness; dwelling in nothingness like the new moon. Chandra Livia Candiani proposes a connection between poetry and meditation, a shared time to experiment together, to conquer the fear of the void and recognize the space in it. We are all apprentices, and being apprentices of the moon means not to fear darkness, to learn the art of wandering and of silent traces. The meditation room is portable, it is our body (duration: approx. 120’).
was born and lives in Milan. She is a poet and has translated Buddhist texts from English. She has published two volumes of fairy tales, Fiabe vegetali (Aelia Laelia, 1984) and Sogni del fiume (La biblioteca di Vivarium, 2001). Her poetry is often dreamlike and visionary, because, as she says, “the ability to dream of reality has saved my life”. Her books include: Io con vestito leggero (Campanotto, 2005); La nave di nebbia. Ninnenanne per il mondo (2005), La porta (2006), all published by La biblioteca di Vivarium; Bevendo il tè con i morti (Viennepierre, 2007), that won her the Baghetta award. Some of her poems are included in the anthology Nuovi poeti italiani 6 (Einaudi, 2012). She holds poetry workshops in primary schools, in hospices for AIDS patients, and for the homeless. She has been leading meditation and poetry groups for adults for many years.
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations
